NameNode and DataNode now abort during startup if attempting to run in secure mode, but block access tokens are not enabled by setting configuration property dfs.block.access.token.enable to true in hdfs-site.xml. Previously, this case logged a warning, because this would be an insecure configuration.

NameNode and DataNode now abort during startup if attempting to run in secure mode, but block access tokens are not enabled by setting configuration property dfs.block.access.token.enable to true in hdfs-site.xml. Previously, this case logged a warning, because this would be an insecure configuration.

Description

Currently, if security is enabled by setting hadoop.security.authentication to kerberos, but HDFS block access tokens are disabled by setting dfs.block.access.token.enable to false (which is the default), then the NameNode logs an error and proceeds, and the DataNode proceeds without even logging an error. This jira proposes that this it's invalid to turn on security but not turn on block access tokens, and that it would be better to fail fast and abort the daemons during startup if this happens.